Nine years is plenty of time to kill a band. But not Deadones.

By Chris Dreyer

But despite the odds (and the name), the Deadones are far from dead. Over their nine years, they’ve played hundreds of shows and become an ever-present institution in the Spokane music scene. And the best part is, during the past nine years, they’ve also become really effing good.

With help of a ‘zine, a bi-monthly tournament and the indelible lure of the game itself, pinball is on a roll.

By Chris Dreyer

is one of the few things in the world that can convert a nonbeliever into a zealot with a mere two dollars’ worth of quarters. Everyone loves pinball, even if they don’t know it. All you gotta do is get them in front of a machine — the machine takes care of the rest.

Scrambles blazes through 13 tracks and uses nearly as many musicians — on everything from drum machines to Game Boys.

By Chris Dreyer

Hype is tough. Vampire Weekend received their fair share of backlash for their first album and their particular blend of melodic indie and Afropop. There’s admittedly a certain amount of pretention involved — the group refers to their own style as “Upper West Side Soweto.

Hormones ran feverishly high at the Twilight: New Moon premiere. Then the movie started.

By Chris Dreyer

An hour before showtime, and it’s already a hopping tweenybopper freak scene. The new Twilight movie, New Moon, is playing on 10 screens at the AMC 20 downtown, midnight of opening day, and every theater is sold out.

Political music, not musical politics

By Chris Dreyer

That’s Cobra Skulls’ singer/bass player Devin Peralta’s straightforward response to a probably stupid question. The Reno, Nevada, band’s music plays out in similar fashion: razor-sharp, energetic punk rock that touches on a variety of social issues without being preachy or.